WordPress Training Course Info...

Course Duration: 1 Day | Class Time: 9am - 4:30pm | Class Size: 6 Students Max

Training Room Location: Level 1, Opposite Reg. Hosp Sunyani B/A R.

Course Materials: As part of the course you will receive many useful resources and learning links to compliment your training and help you stay on track after your course.

Certificates: All students receive a certificate of achievement on completion of their course.

After Course Support: On completion of your course you will be eligible for free email and phone support*, to aid you in the development of your new skills.

FREE Course Resit: We offer you the chance to come back in the future and resit your course for FREE*, so if you want to polish your skills further or just recap on a few things this is a great option.

What you need to bring: Nothing. We supply your choice of MAC or PC computer for you to use with all software already installed and have note pads, pens etc in the training room. If you think it would be beneficial to bring some samples of your work that would be great but not essential.

Cost: GH¢ ???+GST

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About our WordPress Training Course

Our Wordpress training courses are aimed at getting you familiar with Wordpress so you can design your own website or blog easily. This Wordpress course covers all the basic topics that you need to know to create your own website with ease and control.

We know how important designing your own website is especially if it’s for your Nastech Sunyani business. Our Wordpress training has been designed specifically for small to medium business owners or anyone else who needs to have a web presence for their products and services.

We'll show you how to get the most from Wordpress covering the basics right through to customising your sites theme and appearance, we will cover things such as finding great themes and templates, changing your header image, changing fonts, changing colours, inserting advertising and also social media buttons from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Our Nastech Sunyani based Wordpress courses are very thorough. We want you to leave the course feeling confident that you can now create your own website or blog. With this in mind we offer you the chance to come back in the future and resit our Wordpress training for FREE, so if you want to polish your skills further or just recap on a few things this is a great option. We also offer free after course support via phone or email, so if you get stuck with anything or have an urgent question we are here to help.

COURSE DATES - SYD	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT
WordPress Training	2 16 23	8 20	4 20 30	16 31	14 24	12 22
WordPress Advanced	11	-	11 30	17	14	12
WordPress One-On-One	Numerous date available each week, please call
WordPress Mastery	Choose your courses from any of the above dates
WordPress On-Site	Please call to arrange suitable on-site training dates

Who should attend this WordPress course?

- Beginners with no or little Wordpress experience

- Self taught Wordpress users

- Wordpress users who have never received professional training

- Web Designers

- Small business owners wanting to create their own website

- Sales and Marketing staff working web based media

- Students and school teachers

- Office administration staff

Things you will do and skills you will gain by attending...

- Learn to design a website effectively.

- Develop effective website Layout and design skills

- Get websites looking good by developing html and css skills

- Learn how to improve your workflow and work fast

- Setup a Wordpress file cleanly minimizing over use of code

- Learn to upload, optimise and manage your website correctly

Course Outline

Understanding Wordpress

Wordpress for website design
Wordpress as a blogging tool
How wordpress fits in
Purchasing a domain name
Purchasing web hosting
Technology behind wordpress
Understanding php
Understanding web servers

Installation

Downloading wordpress
Installation guides
Wp-config configuration
Uploading files via ftp
Creating a database
Running the install script
Understanding search engines
Previewing Your Site

Dashboard

Finding your way around
Accessing content
Quickpress
Screen Options
Changing your user account
Creating pages and posts quickly
Checking the current version

Adding Posts

Entering a title and body text
Upload and insert images
Customising images
Advanced image settings
Upload and insert videos
Upload and insert audio
Upload and insert other media
Working with the visual editor
Showing the kitchen sink
Text formatting options
Creating URL links
Creating download links
Spell check
Understanding HTML
Working with the HTML editor
HTML editor tricks
Adding post tags
Adding categories

Publishing Posts

Previewing your post
Saving unfinished work
Publishing your post
Changing your post status
Controlling post visibility
Controlling publish dates
Deleting posts

Adding Pages

Publishing Pages

Previewing your page
Saving unfinished work
Publishing your page
Changing your page status
Controlling page visibility
Controlling publish dates
Deleting page

Viewing Posts

Applying filters
Edit, quick edit, trash, view
Changing screen options
List and excerpt view

Post Categories and Tags

Adding categories
Understanding parent categories
Edit existing categories

Adding post tags
Understanding parent categories
Edit existing post tags

Adding Media

Managing media
Uploading new files
Deleting media on webserver

Creating Links

Managing links
Adding links
Creating link categories

Working with Comments

Managing comments
Changing comment settings
Spam protection
Deleting comments

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Appearance & Premium Themes

Theme considerations
Where to find premium themes
Installing a new theme
Managing existing themes
Deleting themes
Anatomy of a theme
Exclusive theme settings
Understanding your new theme
Working with sidebar widgets
The handy text widget
HTML text widget tricks
Other handy widgets

Customising Site Appearance

Finding premium Wordpress themes

Changing your header image

Changing site fonts

Changing site colours

Inserting advertising and animations

Adding social media buttons and links

Theme Customisation

Understanding the editor
Editing CSS appearance
Editing PHP code
Changing header images
Changing text colour
Changing background colours
Changing background images
Repositioning items
Removing theme elements
Inserting advertising

Creating Navigation Menu Bars

Understanding pages and navigation

Creating vertical menu bars

Creating horizontal menu bars

Controlling menu item order

Creating sub menus

Controlling sub menu order

Changing menu bar appearance

Working with Plugins

Understanding plugins
Adding additional functionality
Things to consider
Social media plugins
Flash content plugins
Image slider plugins
Image gallery plugins
Video plugins
Shopping cart plugins
SEO plugins
Removing plugins from webserver

Working with Multiple Users

Working in a team environment
Adding new users
Adding a subscriber
Adding a editor
Adding a author
Adding a contributor
Adding an administrator
Restricting user access
Changing profile settings

Tools and Settings

Import and export
General settings
Writing settings
Reading settings
Discussion settings
Media settings
Privacy settings
Permalinks settings

Wordpress Updates

Should you update Wordpress?
Important update considerations
Backing up wordpress
Recovery plans
Working Offline
Online Migration
Finding Help and Support

Our WordPress training is perfect for anyone looking to create and edit their own website. This WordPress course is great place to start and is very broad covering all the essentials of WordPress web design. This WordPress course is perfect for anyone with little or no experience in web design.

WordPress Advanced

Want to take the next step? Our WordPress advanced training is designed to take you to the next level. WordPress includes many advanced features that make designing your website more efficient giving you greater control. This WordPress Dreamweaver course is ideal for those serious about web design.

Course Duration: 1 Day | 9am - 4:30pm

Class Size: 6 Students Max

Cost: GH¢ ??? +GST